![]() WiFi routers typically have one WAN/”internet” port and 4 LAN ports – is there a way I could utilize my cheap WiFi Router as managed switch ? Turns out I can! ![]() Now I did not have a managed switch lying around, but I had a WiFi router. One popular, and obvious, solution for single NIC pfSense box design involves using an external switch to “expand” number of available ethernet ports. One may argue that I could use laptop’s wireless card for WiFi access – but anyone who has tried running hostapd on FreeBSD knows that you could barely go beyond a few Mbps of speed. That meant that I could only connect my “internet”/WAN cable coming from my ISP, I had no second port to connect my WiFi router for wireless access. I had an old laptop that I could use to install pfSense on, but as is case with any laptop – the laptop only had single network interface. I really wanted to try out pfSense while I had lots of ARM based single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Rock Pi E lying around – I did not have a spare x86 machine to host pfSense on – as pfSense does not support ARM CPU (yet).
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